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LikwidDrawp
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Re: I wake up everyday [Re: SpecialEd]
#1731400 - 07/19/03 11:46 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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We are robots. Maybe you need to get out of the robotic groove, take a break from work and go enjoy nature. Sometimes we extra money to do these things... Money = comfortable survival. You could live in a tent in the woods though. Unfortunately we have to perform meaningless tasks to get money. Ever consider being a park ranger?
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Re: I wake up everyday [Re: SpecialEd]
#1731435 - 07/20/03 12:00 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Situationsim They originated in a small band of avant-garde artists and intellectuals influenced by Dada, Surrealism and Lettrism. The post-war Lettrist International, which sought to fuse poetry and music and transform the urban landscape, was a direct forerunner of the group who founded the magazine Situationiste Internationale in 1957. At first, they were principally concerned with the "suppression of art", that is to say, they wished like the Dadaists and the Surrealists before them to supersede the categorization of art and culture as separate activities and to transform them into part of everyday life. Like the Lettrists, they were against work and for complete _divertissement_. Under capitalism, the creativity of most people had become diverted and stifled, and society had been divided into actors and spectators, producers and consumers. The Situationists therefore wanted a different kind of revolution: they wanted the imagination, not a group of men, to seize power, and poetry and art to be made by all. Enough! they declared. To hell with work, to hell with boredom! Create and construct an eternal festival. -- Peter Marshall http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Obituary/debord.html ----------- If you have some free time read some Situationist literature online, starting with "Society of the Spectacle" by Guy Debord. Basically the Situationists saw everyday life as a dynamic, spontaneous celebration of being and creating. They realized the bullshit that you've observed. The 8-hour factory jobs making useless garbage. They saw how culture is neatly packaged into pre-formed ideas that are so far removed from the original concept that it leaves nothing to be experienced directly. Consider this... Think of an anthropomorphized talking cartoon rabbit. Then think of a live rabbit. Compare. See how our culture takes an idea, removes it from it's original form, and changes something to make it more entertaining or more "fun", and then repeats this process indefinitely. It's like the Law of Diminishing Returns, except it's more like a Law of Diminishing Reality, or Law of Diminishing Genuineness. You get the point... so we are fed these IMAGES of things rather than EXPERIENCE the things themselves. Walk down the breakfast cereal aisle of your local supermarket. "Hey would you look at that there's a drawing of a tiger on this box of cereal! Oh look at that cute bandana he's got on! Wait a minute, something's not right here, tigers don't stand up-right, advertise how GRRRREAT cereals are, or even speak English as far as I know... What the fuck!?!?" Hehe you get the idea? I realize this is starting to get off-topic from your post but this seemed like a good thread to bring this up.
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RainZ
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Re: I wake up everyday [Re: ]
#1731486 - 07/20/03 12:18 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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" Cause I'm praying for rain, praying for tidal waves....I wanna see the ground give way....wanna watch it all go down....."
Some say we'll see armageddon soon......
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LikwidDrawp
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Re: I wake up everyday [Re: RainZ]
#1731608 - 07/20/03 01:09 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Some have said we'd see armageddon as long as there was a language to speak. I have a SERIOUS prophecy to make right now folks, the world is GOING to physically END in this time frame.
Anywhere from: 10 seconds from now To: 900,000,000 years.
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infidelGOD
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10 seconds - 900 million years?
wow, don't go out on a limb now...
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fireworks_god
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Re: I wake up everyday [Re: SpecialEd]
#1732536 - 07/20/03 02:36 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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SpecialEd said: The thing is though, Every one I know hates their job, Every one I know is not happy with their lives. I think there needs to be an extra day of the week where you don't work, you smoke pot, listen to tool and bill hicks, and then you go to a lake and watch the reflection of the sunset and realize that life is too beatiful to waste collecting green pieces of paper with pictures of dead presidents on them. Then we would not have this problem
Um...... Sunday?
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hawk
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Re: I wake up everyday [Re: SpecialEd]
#1733286 - 07/20/03 08:46 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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I agree with you this country is obsessed with money and I think this man made drive for it, is killing the human spirit. It is interesting to note that success in this world is generally defined by ones bank account, not by the quality of ones craft, or the content of ones brain. Communism is also not the only alternative to a capitalist society driven by money. I think maybe the fact that millions of people spend their money on useless objects, enough so that a factory has to be built to produce them is testament enough to the validity of his feelings of depression, and the hopelessness of this mind set that is infiltrating this world.
Edited by hawk (07/20/03 08:53 PM)
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Re: I wake up everyday [Re: hawk]
#1733297 - 07/20/03 08:51 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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"Um...... Sunday?"
Not everybody has sunday off. I had to work today
everytime the radio says "TGIF" I laugh and wonder how many people that actually means something to...
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fireworks_god
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Re: I wake up everyday [Re: DoctorJ]
#1733349 - 07/20/03 09:21 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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You're the one that took the job, man. I mean, it sucks, and taking over the weekend is one line work should have never have crossed.
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Kenny Bus
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so what are we gunna do about? we can preach all day, we're victems of our time! but then we go back to our 9-5 to pay the very people who are using us. even if we ever manage to organize a working class strike, where every or most of us say fuck you to the suits, if its successfull they will just offer a little more green and the sheep will start selling out. so i'm currently unemployed, trying hard to survive in the without feeding the beast, and i'm fucking starvin.
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